"Honeymoon" with DU30 is over? What honeymoon?
Regarding Duterte's term as President, I hear people say, "Honeymoon is over".
Oh really? What honeymoon?
Detractors didn't want him to sit from Day 1 and unceasingly mocked him and exerted efforts to unseat him. What honeymoon?
The truth is, there was no honeymoon... at all!
With that as the President's rough situation from Day 1, we might as well see the next two years as they are... I see sustained rough sailing for the President from now until 2019.
There are two major things that would happen in 2019, and the yellows are afraid of these two things to their bones.
Here they are....
Hah! First, the year 2019 would be the year when DU30 will have already appointed the majority of new Justices in the Supreme Court (see http://j.mp/2yE0Ps5). That's the day the yellows fear the most! That's the year Senator Dilemma, este De Lima, fears the most... justifiably or not.
If today 9 justices already said no to her appeal, what scenario do they see in 2019? Her legal team can choose to adopt all the delaying tactics they can find in their books, try to get her out of the pan... and into the big raging fire.
(Personally, I wish De Lima's case wraps up within the next 2 years, if only to demonstrate that there are solid cases against her. Her continued stay in jail without a conviction is a continued opportunity for the yellows to cry "political harassment". I have to chuckle while typing that - considering that the drug industry literally bloomed under her very nose as Secretary of Justice and she sang songs in Bilibid prison with convicts who were big names in illegal drugs operating right within Bilibid.)
Make no mistake, the yellows (and the drug lords, and the corrupt) will do everything to prevent 2019 from coming for a host of other reasons. You can bet on that.
Soon though, they'll be finished if we do our jobs in social media in 2019, coz there's another thing that would happen that year -- the next elections!
Let's STOP voting political grandstanders and take them out of our halls of power! Can we do that?
If we, the electorate, successfully do that, then the real honeymoon with the President may just happen. But I don't think that on that day there'd be time to celebrate. The President would still have too much to do in the remaining years of his term.
Outside of fully emasculating the drug industry in our country and cleaning up our streets and our halls, there would still be that march towards a Federal-Parliamentary system, taking out barriers to foreign direct investments and upholding integrity and meritocracy in governance.
As a song says, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
Though I sense desperation on the yellow side of the fence today, if we know them well, they won't let go. They won't all of a sudden bend their knees and seek reconciliation (take out the perennial turn-coats from the picture). I don't expect them to. Their egos alone won't let them, not to mention the vested interests destroyed by Duterte.
The battles in social media will continue to take place, with even greater ferocity in the next two years. Pero tingnan natin kung sinong tunay na matibay -- mga bayaran na nagtatago sa iba't-ibang pangalan? or mga ragtag social media guerillas na gustong magtagumpay ang pangulo?
Oh really? What honeymoon?
Detractors didn't want him to sit from Day 1 and unceasingly mocked him and exerted efforts to unseat him. What honeymoon?
The truth is, there was no honeymoon... at all!
With that as the President's rough situation from Day 1, we might as well see the next two years as they are... I see sustained rough sailing for the President from now until 2019.
There are two major things that would happen in 2019, and the yellows are afraid of these two things to their bones.
Here they are....
Hah! First, the year 2019 would be the year when DU30 will have already appointed the majority of new Justices in the Supreme Court (see http://j.mp/2yE0Ps5). That's the day the yellows fear the most! That's the year Senator Dilemma, este De Lima, fears the most... justifiably or not.
If today 9 justices already said no to her appeal, what scenario do they see in 2019? Her legal team can choose to adopt all the delaying tactics they can find in their books, try to get her out of the pan... and into the big raging fire.
(Personally, I wish De Lima's case wraps up within the next 2 years, if only to demonstrate that there are solid cases against her. Her continued stay in jail without a conviction is a continued opportunity for the yellows to cry "political harassment". I have to chuckle while typing that - considering that the drug industry literally bloomed under her very nose as Secretary of Justice and she sang songs in Bilibid prison with convicts who were big names in illegal drugs operating right within Bilibid.)
Make no mistake, the yellows (and the drug lords, and the corrupt) will do everything to prevent 2019 from coming for a host of other reasons. You can bet on that.
Soon though, they'll be finished if we do our jobs in social media in 2019, coz there's another thing that would happen that year -- the next elections!
Let's STOP voting political grandstanders and take them out of our halls of power! Can we do that?
If we, the electorate, successfully do that, then the real honeymoon with the President may just happen. But I don't think that on that day there'd be time to celebrate. The President would still have too much to do in the remaining years of his term.
Outside of fully emasculating the drug industry in our country and cleaning up our streets and our halls, there would still be that march towards a Federal-Parliamentary system, taking out barriers to foreign direct investments and upholding integrity and meritocracy in governance.
As a song says, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
Though I sense desperation on the yellow side of the fence today, if we know them well, they won't let go. They won't all of a sudden bend their knees and seek reconciliation (take out the perennial turn-coats from the picture). I don't expect them to. Their egos alone won't let them, not to mention the vested interests destroyed by Duterte.
The battles in social media will continue to take place, with even greater ferocity in the next two years. Pero tingnan natin kung sinong tunay na matibay -- mga bayaran na nagtatago sa iba't-ibang pangalan? or mga ragtag social media guerillas na gustong magtagumpay ang pangulo?
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